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Hiroaki Suga

Hiroaki Suga (菅裕明) is a Japanese chemist and University of Tokyo professor who invented flexizyme and co-founded the peptide drug-discovery company PeptiDream in 2006.

Hiroaki Uchikura

Hiroaki Uchikura (内倉浩昭, born 1965) is a Japanese Air Self-Defense Force general serving as the 8th Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff since 2025.

Hirofumi Toda is a Japanese neurogeneticist at the University of Tsukuba's sleep institute who identified the sleep-inducing gene nemuri through a screen of over 12,000 fruit fly lines, published in Science in 2019.

Hirofumi Uzawa

Hirofumi Uzawa (宇沢弘文) was a Japanese mathematical economist whose two-sector growth model, the Meade–Uzawa model, shaped optimal capital accumulation, and who later developed social common capital theory applied to climate change.

Hirofumi Yoshimura (吉村洋文)

Hirofumi Yoshimura (吉村洋文), born 1975, is Governor of Osaka since 2019, former 20th Mayor of Osaka, and leader of Nippon Ishin no Kai since December 2024, known for the 2020 Osaka model COVID standards.

Oct 10, 2026

Hirogin Holdings

Hirogin Holdings, Inc. (株式会社ひろぎんホールディングス) is the bank holding company of The Hiroshima Bank, established in October 2020 as the first in Japan with a single bank under a holding company.

Oct 21, 2026

Hirohama Surfing School

Hirohama Surfing School is a beginner-rated beach break surf spot at Hirohama Beach, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan (35.3035, 139.5526). A-frame waves; best January, February, and October; summer waves 0.5–1.2 m; hazards include rip currents and crowds.

Oct 15, 2026

Hirohata Works

Hirohata Works (広畑製鉄所) is a Nippon Steel steelworks in Himeji, Japan, opened in 1939 and now the site of the company's first commercial electric arc furnace operation, started in 2022.

Hirohide Saito

Hirohide Saito (齊藤博英) is a Japanese bioengineer and professor at Kyoto University's CiRA, known for miRNA-responsive RNA switches and RNA-only logic circuits in mammalian cells.

Hirohide Sugiura

Hirohide Sugiura (杉浦博英) is a Japanese game producer and executive who co-founded Monolith Soft in Tokyo in 1999 with Tetsuya Takahashi after working as a producer at Square.

Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦)

Hirohiko Araki (荒木飛呂彦), legal name Araki Toshiyuki, born 1960 in Sendai, is the manga artist behind JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (since 1986, 120 million copies, nine parts) and the first living manga artist with a solo show at a Japanese national museum.

Hirohisa Ohmiya

Hirohisa Ohmiya (大宮寛久) is a Japanese organic chemist and Kyoto University professor known for radical-polar crossover and NHC organocatalysis, and winner of the 2021 Mukaiyama Award.

Hirohito (裕仁)

Hirohito (裕仁), posthumously Emperor Shōwa, was the 124th emperor of Japan, reigning 1926–1989, the longest reign in Japanese history; regent from 1921, wartime sovereign who announced surrender in 1945, postwar symbolic emperor, and marine biologist.

Sep 23, 2026

Hiroji Indulkar

Hiroji Indulkar (हिरोजी इंदुलकर) was the 17th-century chief engineer of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, credited with building the capital fort of Raigad and the sea fort of Sindhudurg.

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和)

Hirokazu Kore-eda (是枝裕和), born 1962 in Tokyo, is a Japanese film director and former TV documentary maker whose films include Nobody Knows, Still Walking, and Shoplifters, which won the 2018 Cannes Palme d'Or; later works include Broker, Monster, Sheep in the Box, and Look Back.

Hiroki Ago

Hiroki Ago (吾郷浩樹) is a Japanese physicist and materials scientist at Kyushu University known for CVD growth of graphene and hBN and for leading Japan's 2.5D materials program.

Hiroki Kikuta (菊田裕樹)

Hiroki Kikuta (菊田裕樹), born 1962 in Aichi, is a Japanese composer and game designer who scored Secret of Mana (1993) and Seiken Densetsu 3 for Square, founded Sacnoth, and produced Koudelka; distinct from other Kikuta namesakes.

Hiroki R. Ueda

Hiroki R. Ueda (上田泰己) is a Japanese systems biologist and chronobiology researcher, professor at the University of Tokyo, known for work on mammalian circadian clocks and sleep.

Hiroki Sakai (酒井宏樹)

Hiroki Sakai (酒井宏樹), born 1990, is a Japanese right back for Auckland FC whose career spans Kashiwa Reysol, Hannover 96, Marseille (184 matches), Urawa Red Diamonds, and 74 Japan caps.

Hiroki Totoki (十時裕樹)

Hiroki Totoki (十時裕樹) is a Japanese business executive who served as Sony's CFO from 2018 and became President and CEO of Sony Group Corporation in April 2025.

Hiroko Moriguchi

Hiroko Moriguchi (森口博子) is a Japanese singer from Fukuoka Prefecture who debuted in 1985 with the Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam opening theme and later hit "ETERNAL WIND".

Oct 21, 2026

Hiroko Sakai

Hiroko Sakai (坂井寛子), born 1978 in Fukui, is a Japanese softball pitcher who won bronze at Athens 2004 and gold at Beijing 2008, plus 2002 Busan Asian Games gold.

Hiroko Shimabukuro

Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋寛子) is a Japanese singer from Okinawa, a founding vocalist of the girl group Speed who began a solo career as hiro in 1998.

Hiroko Yakushimaru

Hiroko Yakushimaru (薬師丸ひろ子) is a Japanese actress and singer, born in Tokyo in 1964, whose 1981 debut single "Sailor Fuku to Kikanjū" was the 1980s' best-selling female idol single.

Hirola

The hirola, also called Hunter's antelope or Hunter's hartebeest, is a critically endangered antelope native to the Kenya–Somalia border region and the only living member of its genus Beatragus.

Oct 10, 2026

Hiromi Arisawa

Hiromi Arisawa (有沢広巳) was a Japanese economist, statistician, and government policy adviser who devised the priority production system guiding Japan's postwar reconstruction and is counted among the intellectual founders of the Japanese developmental state.